If the Hawkes Bay amalgamation proposal is different to the one dumped in Wellington, why are it’s promoters using the same reasons for supporting it?
In the Wellington debate, supercity shysters claimed the future was at stake, because the proposal would bolster growth, provide jobs, and cut costs. They also claimed a supercity would cure rheumatic fever and poverty. Oh, and they tried to claim that the amalgamation proposal was nothing like Auckland.
Most of the same simplistic ideas are being used by the rose tinted morons in Hawkes Bay. The Hawkes Bay proponents of a regional view, don’t seem to get out much – or they might have seen how those simplistic ideas are rubbish.
- ‘Once in the generation’ chance to change? Give us a break. No one should be bullied into a decision for fear they might not get to decide later.
- ‘Grow the economy’. How exactly is that? What is it that a single Council would do to add to GDP, or jobs? Draw us a straight line between the same consent rules in each region to one extra job… we dare you.
- ‘Lower costs’. No single amalgamation anywhere at any time has ever saved more than it cost. Show us one that has. Show us one where the rates consequently went down because so much money was saved. You can’t. It never happened.
